A mix of corporate and private life experiences

Violated And Disgusted

When I arrived at the office yesterday I was shocked to discover that my office had been cleaned out. The only things left were a monitor, a power strip, my chair and the phone. It turns out that the non-English speaking cleaning crew was given directions to clean out the empty offices on my row in preparation for the employees moving in from the south campus. They didn’t realize my office was occupied and threw all of my belongings away which were later crushed in the huge trash compactor in the basement loading dock. All my files were trashed including the ones containing proprietary information which have to be shredded. My coffee cup was trashed along with an engraved glass award I received last year for contributing to the success of a project. Every Post-It Note, paper clip, pencil, pen, marker, Hi-Liter, and push pin were thrown away. They even pitched the stapler and my wooden Neiman Marcus coat hanger I brought from home. Given I work at company where it is almost impossible to order office supplies if find it incredibly wasteful that all of the office supplies were thrown away. I received many apologies from the real estate building manager, the cleaning crew manager (who speaks English) and my department’s executive assistant but I can’t help but feel violated and disgusted by the wasteful actions of the cleaning crew. To make it even worse, several of my peers saw the cleaning crew cleaning out my office but failed to say anything. How’s that for camaraderie?

With all the terminations and shakeups that company has had, your co-workers probably thought you’d been voted off the island. I cannot believe they just throw stuff out though! Wasteful! Maybe that’s what’s wrong with that organization?!
I hope they compensate you, the bastards.